How we are drugging ourselves with legal drugs.

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Thursday, September 29, 2005The raw (and ugly) truth about the war on drugs

--------------Drugs are bad. Drugs destroy peoples' lives. Didn't you know thatmarijuana turns regular everyday people into zombie pot smokers?That's why we have a war on drugs in America: to protect our childrenfrom potheads.Drugs are bad. Especially marijuana. I learned this the other day whenI visited an elementary school as a guest speaker. The schoolchildrenwere well trained in describing the dangers of drugs. On command, theywould spout out any number of statements describing them.But then a funny thing happened. I started asking how many of themwere on drugs. You know, drugs their doctor prescribed. Drugs thatalter brain chemistry to keep them docile, or free of pain, or todilate their lungs so they could breathe easier.It turned out that 60% of these schoolchildren were either on drugs atthat very moment, or had been on such drugs within the last

twelvemonths. Two-thirds of the teachers were on drugs, too. And it's not atall a stretch to believe that 40% or more of all parents are on drugs.Mild-altering drugs like antidepressants, no less.A nation of drug addictsFact is, we are a nation of drug addicts. We drug ourselves, ourelderly and our children on a daily basis. We do it with prescriptionmedications, over-the-counter pills, alcohol, caffeine, nicotine...and we say it's all fine because those drugs are legal.But wait a minute, you say. Those legal drugs are different frommarijuana. They're FDA-approved drugs, prescribed by a doctor. Theyhave a medical purpose.Oh really? Ritalin has a medical purpose? What medical symptoms doesRitalin treat, then? What measurable physiological state is addressedwith Ritalin? There are none, of course. Ritalin is an authority drug.It keeps children in line. It makes teachers feel less stress andparents feel less

guilt. Ritalin is a mind-altering narcotic, and yetmillions of children are on it today. Its purpose is not to helpchildren, but to make life more convenient for those who manage children.You think statin drugs have a medical purpose? Think again. Inreality, they only have a profit purpose. These drugs were invented tosell pills that manage disease states in people, not that solve anyreal health problem. Don't believe me? Just stop taking your statindrugs, if you dare, and watch your cholesterol skyrocket. You'll findout you're a slave to the drug, and no healthier than before.What's the difference between legal and illegal drugs?So what's the real difference between legal drugs and illegal drugs?Some people think that only illegal drugs are habit-forming. Yet legaldrugs can be just as addictive as illegal drugs. Just ask anyone whohas tried to quit smoking, go off caffeine, or kick to Oxycontin habit.So is there

some other difference between illegal drugs and legaldrugs? People argue that legal drugs are safe. They're FDA-approved!And yet they fail to recognize that prescription drugs kill moreAmericans each year than all the crack, meth, and heroin deaths combined.Okay, then, what about the argument that illegal drugs have nomedicinal purpose, and legal drugs do have a medicinal purpose. Whatabout that? Wrong again. Medical marijuana is a medically proventreatment for a variety of conditions, yet marijuana still remainsillegal. Even MDMA (now called "Ecstasy" on the street) was longconsidered an effective "experiential drug" that helped severelytraumatized adult patients overcome past pains through improvedclarity. At the same time, tobacco smoke has no medical purposewhatsoever, yet cigarettes remain perfectly legal.No, the real difference between these two classes of drugs is nottheir medical merit, nor their safety. The

real difference issomething far more sinister. It gets right down to answering thequestion of why DEA agents will raid medical marijuana clinics, yetstand by doing nothing while Americans smoke themselves to death ontobacco.Want to know the real answer? I very much doubt you do. Because, likemost Americans, you won't believe it. You've been blinded to theobvious truth for your whole life, manipulated by the media, andbrainwashed by advertising that has turned you into astatistically-validated consumer. You'll think, no, this couldn'tpossibly be true. The world isn't that unjust, you think. But you'rewrong. (Take the free Gullibility Factor test to find out if you'rereally a mind slave or not...)Here's the raw, blunt truth about the war on drugs. Drugs are declaredlegal or illegal based primarily on who benefits from theirmanufacture, distribution and sale.Corporate and government profits determine the

legalityLet me put this another way. You know why cigarettes are still legal?Consider this: here's a product that admittedly kills people. It hasno health benefit whatsoever. It is a threat to the public health. Yetwhy does it remain legal? Because states get a cut of cigarette salesthanks to the Big Tobacco settlement a few years back. Keepingcigarettes legal results in desperately-needed revenues for states...revenues that are almost never spent on anti-smoking campaigns, by theway.It's a classic racket: tobacco is allowed to remain legal becausepowerful institutions get a cut of the action. While people die fromlung cancer, states get financial resuscitation by taking a cut ofevery sale. States are trading your health for their revenues.Think I'm being overly cynical? Let's take a look at gambling laws.Organized gambling is illegal at both the state and federal levels inthis country. Except, of course, when

government gets a cut.Casino-friendly states didn't just make casinos legal for the good ofthe public: they legalized gambling in exchange for a cut of theaction. It's a classic, mob-style "protection fee."If you want to test this theory, launch your own online gamblingwebsite. You'll be shut down almost immediately and charged withserious crimes. Gambling and organized betting is illegal, didn't youknow? That is, unless the state runs the show, as in state lotteries.It's right in your face, folks: gambling is legal when powerfulcorporations or institutions get a piece of the action. It's illegalwhen they don't. It has nothing at all to do with morality, orprotecting people, or doing what's right. It's all about money, pureand simple. Just ask all the corrupt politicians in Missouri wholegalized riverboat gambling a few years back.Getting back to drugs, why do you think alcohol remains a legal drug?Because

states and cities tax it. State governments are addicted toalcoholics as a source of revenue to fund their voter entitlementprograms that get politicians reelected. Alcohol is a cash machine forcities and states.Sometimes the exact same chemical is both legal and illegal, dependingon who profits from it. The FDA, for example, banned the Chinese herbma huang because it contains ephedra. Yet the exact same chemicalcompound remains perfectly legal in over-the-counter drugs likeSudafed and a variety of cold medicines. Sudafed even gets its namefrom ephedra: "pseudo-ephedrine." So why is ephedrine illegal inherbs, yet legal in pharmacy drugs manufactured by drug companies? Youalready know the answer.With all that in mind, why do you think prescription drugs that killpeople remain legal? Think carefully now...If you guessed, "Because powerful corporations generate billions inprofits selling drugs, and governments get

a cut of that via statesales taxes and corporate income taxes" then BINGO! You win a prize: alifetime of free Prozac to keep you happy!Legal drugs generate windfall profits for those in powerThink about it: if prescription drugs were peddled by street dealersinstead of doctors, and if all that revenue changed hands in anon-taxable, non-corporate structure (i.e. street cash), then you'd beseeing full-scale law enforcement action against the makers,distributors and sellers of those drugs. You'd also see endlessheadlines about how dangerous they were: "Street painkillers killtwelve in South Miami!"The sad truth of the matter, though, is that those very samepainkilling drugs killed at least twelve people in South Miami thisvery day. But you'll never here about it in the media. Because thenews networks are sponsored by drug companies, of course. (The news isnot designed to inform you, it's designed to shape your reality,

toturn you into a consumer of whatever products the corporations arepeddling this year. Didn't you know?)Every drug that's legal is legal for one simple reason: somebody in aposition of power is keeping it legal because they're getting a cut.Non-patentable drugs are usually outlawedThat's why medical marijuana is illegal: because government doesn'tcontrol its distribution, nor does government receive a financial cut.You can bet your life that if Big Pharma owned the patents on medicalmarijuana and could set monopolistic prices on it, pot would beperfectly legal to own and smoke. That is, as long as you got it froma pharmacy where prices and distribution could be controlled.Control is the key here. You think the FDA is discrediting drugs fromCanada in order to protect your health? Get real. The FDA is simplyprotecting the monopoly drug market in this country. It's controllingdistribution points in the U.S. in the

same way that a crack dealerassassinates his street corner competition. Eliminate the competition,and you can set whatever price you want. That's why uninformed U.S.consumers pay 30,000% markup prices for drugs that can be acquired inMexico or Canada for pennies on the dollar.It's not about your health, it's about their wealthYou see, corporate America doesn't really care what you put in yourmouth, up your nose, through your lungs or into your veins, as long asthey get a cut from it. That's the whole prescription drug racket in anutshell: it's billions of dollars in annual profits generated frommind-altering (yet legal) drugs that flat-out kill people. Lots ofpeople. Like 100,000 Americans a year (or a lot more if you believemore critical statistics).So if you've ever wondered why Ritalin -- which has no medical purposewhatsoever -- is perfectly legal, and yet medical marijuana -- whichhas a well-proven medical

purpose -- is outlawed, now you know theanswer: because Ritalin makes powerful people rich. And marijuanadoesn't. Anybody can grow marijuana. Drug companies don't control thepatents.Why I teach people to be 100% drug freeNow, just for the record, I do not personally use any drugs whatsoever(recreational, over-the-counter, prescription or otherwise), and infact, I teach people to be 100% free of all drugs, including caffeineand alcohol. I bought into the "just say no to drugs" advice of NancyReagan, and I actually applied it to ALL drugs, not just selective drugs.And as far as I can tell, aside from the Mormons and the Amish, thereare only a small percentage of truly drug-free people living in thiscountry. Practically everybody I meet is addicted to at least one ofthe following: coffee, cigarettes, alcohol, pain meds, prescriptiondrugs or sugar (which alters brain chemistry in drug-like fashion).At the same time,

I'm not at all fooled by this silly "War on Drugs"charade, which is really nothing more than enforcement of corporatedrug profits at gunpoint. If we had a genuine war on drugs in thiscountry that really worked to protect the American people we'd sendDEA agents into drug company offices and confiscate all the legalizedbut deadly medications being manufactured, distributed and deceptivelysold to unwitting Americans today.Medical marijuana is a threat to both the profits and power of drugcompanies, not to mention the credibility of the DEA. Letting granniessmoke pot in California makes DEA agents look silly. If it wereallowed, it would also undermine the billions of dollars already spentincarcerating people for "pot crimes." Basically, it would make thewhole War on Drugs look stupid. Which it most assuredly is, at leastwhen it comes to marijuana.I can understand taking a tough stance on hard drugs (crack, meth,heroin,

etc.), but arresting cancer patients who smoke joints for paincontrol sounds a lot more like oppression than law enforcement to me.So what is the War on Drugs? It's an excuse to control you. It is asystem that keeps the population in a state of constant fear so thatheroic politicians can get elected on empty promises to "keep fightingthe war on drugs!"The DEA is AWOL on most drug issuesWhere is this War on Drugs when it comes to Grandma in the nursinghome, who died of a stroke caused by Cox-2 inhibitor drugs? Where isthe War on Drugs when little Johnny schoolboy picks up a rifle andblows away his classmates because he's on antidepressants and can'ttell the difference between real life and a first-person-shooter videogame? Where is the War on Drugs when 16,500 people each year die,shitting digested blood until they pass out and die because that dailydose of aspirin tore a gaping hole in their stomach?The War on

Drugs, you see, turns a blind eye to the death andsuffering caused by these drugs. The DEA pretends prescription drugsdon't even exist. No prescription drug death has ever been preventedby the DEA as far as I know. Yet 100,000 Americans are killed eachyear by FDA-approved drugs. The DEA has no interest whatsoever inprotecting Americans from these drugs. Ever wonder why?The DEA is properly named, by the way. It's the Drug EnforcementAgency. It's enforcing drugs. The right drugs. The legal drugs. Thedrugs that make money for drug companies, drug distributors, drugretailers, cities, states and countries. It's enforcement at gunpoint,and as long as the money keeps flowing, the drugs will stay perfectlylegal, regardless of who dies.The entire distribution system is well in place: the false andmisleading television advertising, the outright bribery of drugdealers (doctors), the street corner fulfillment centers

(pharmacies),and the coordinating drug lord running the show (the Fraud and DrugAdministration). It's a brilliant system for manufacturing, promoting,delivering and selling deadly, addictive drugs to children, adults andseniors while generating corporate profits and tax revenues forcities, states and nations.And that's the raw truth about the War on Drugs. You may not like it,but now, at least, you know why it exists.So I have a common sense question for all the people in this country.If you support the War on Drugs, then why are you taking so many drugsyourself? And why are you allowing your children to be drugged?Overview:* The raw (and ugly) truth about the war on drugsSource: http://www.newstarget.com/010944.html

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